![]() Ethel Brooksīrooks’s COVID-19 hospitalization would change her life dramatically. That situation has put me in the worst of places. They wrapped me up and took me upstairs, and from that point on I didn’t see another single soul.” “They took one look at me, and they knew what was going on. “They had their tents and their spaceman suits,” Brooks said. ![]() Fearing she had the coronavirus, her sister drove her to the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai. She said she had searing stomach pains, couldn’t stop sweating, and was too weak to stand. “So many of us were in an aisle at a time, so you’re right under each other.”īy mid-March, Brooks would be too sick to go to work. “It’d be like ground beef, Suave soap, and a bag of diapers,” she said. ![]() That March, however, as the pandemic set in and people flooded online to panic-buy whatever they could, Brooks’s circumstances took a dire turn.īrooks said she and her co-workers worked long hours hurriedly boxing grocery orders. Things were looking up for Ethel Brooks in early 2020-she was 44 years old, had just moved back home to Los Angeles, and had gotten a job at an Amazon Fresh warehouse near downtown, making around $16 an hour. ![]()
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